Full STEAM Ahead – Issue 2 (January 2017) Happy New Year! We are excited to share the second issue of our newsletter Full STEAM Ahead. The newsletter delivers messages from prominent personalities, comments on recent developments as well as on the exciting history of computing, brings updates from schools and libraries, presents tutorials and short
NCLab was selected by Educents to be among Top 101 Educational Websites. This is what they say about NCLab: NCLab’s award-winning curriculum uses the power of games to teach computer programming and 3D modeling to 6th-12th graders. In the fundamental Karel Coding course, students learn computational thinking and all key programming concepts by writing programs
Brief Summary of 2016 – Projects, Team, Courses, Software 2016 was an exciting and productive year for NCLab. We have started several new projects in Nevada, welcomed new team members, made important changes to all courses, added new open source software to the free Creative Suite, and improved NCLab’s internal client-server infrastructure. New Projects in
We are excited to announce that NCLab joined ALA – the American Library Association. The NCLab team strongly believes in informal education, and in equitable access to modern educational technologies for all people, which is only possible through public libraries. The door of a library is open to everybody, disregarding what part of town they were born in, or
We are pleased to announce the acceptance of our full day ISTE 2017 Workshop Gentle Introduction to Coding and 3D Modeling! ISTE 2017 Workshop Gentle Introduction to Coding and 3D Modeling – Outline The six hours will be divided into three parts: Part 1: Karel Coding (110 minutes plus 10 mins break) Part 2: Turtle
Full STEAM Ahead – an Introduction The NCLab Team is excited to launch Full STEAM Ahead, a monthly newsletter dedicated to computing. In one way or another, computing plays an important role in every area of modern STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math). Every month, Full STEAM Ahead will deliver messages from prominent personalities,
This pendant consists of a spiral drawn with Turtle Tina and a hollow spherical eyelet created using PLaSM. Click on the 3D model to view the source code. You can also run the model, and adjust it to your needs. The code is extremely intuitive, so I am sure that you will figure it out!
The self-paced and self-graded Karel Coding course in NCLab is unique in its ability to teach students computational thinking and all key concepts of computer programming without exposing them to the burden of complex syntax of advanced programming languages. In this webinar, NCLab’s Director of Education Sheila Bunch provides a detailed overview of the course
Another great webinar on Karel Coding was presented on November 2 by NCLab’s Director of Education Sheila Bunch. Click on the image below to access the PPT presentation:
We totally loved the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Summit! The meeting took place in the White House on Friday October 28 and at the Georgetown University on Saturday 29. The goal of the Summit was to foster collaboration among states that decided to implement Computer Science for All. To-date this is 16 states that